... for the environmental movement. Jeff Bezos has announced his intention to realise Gerard K O’Neill’s vision of large space settlements located at Lagrange Point L5. This quest for the ‘meaning’ of spaceflight reached a peak with the famous Earthrise...
... The High Frontier, Morrow, New York, 1976; Johnson, RD., Holbrow, c., ed.: Space Settlements: A Design Study, NASA SP-413, 1977, available online at: http://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/75SummerStudy/Table_of_Contents1.html. 3 See http://www.gouvernement...
... Shackleton will be advantageous to the mission because it is another location of great interest to the lunar, science and space settlement communities The Moon in recent times has become a very desirable target of interest for many countries around...
...2 The news is shocking in that it proposes a settlement on man-made space craft rather than natural space bodies like planets or asteroids. It also seeks a nation in outer space. Similar claims on outer space settlements have been made for quite some...
... science research. Individual chapters cover rationales for space exploration, the intrinsic value of knowledge and aspects such as space resource exploitation, space settlement and planetary protection. The volume concludes with references, an index...
... and the modern science, business and financial structure that enables us to make space settlement a near-future reality, Tumlinson is fascinating. Back at the turn of the 20th century, a pioneer of astronautics theory Konstantin ...